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AI agents and more: How tech DNA powers Piping Technology & Products
/in General/by Bart TaylorCEO Rakesh Agrawal is equal parts technologist and industrialist — and having a blast leading 700 employees at Houston’s stalwart manufacturer By Bart Taylor Rakesh Agrawal leads the company his father founded in the mid-1970’s, “growing up in the business on my dad’s knee,” he told me in a recent conversation. Rakesh’s dad, Dr. Durga Agrawal, […]
Inside Texas Injection Molding’s rollup strategy: ‘a good time for buyers and sellers’
/in General/by Bart TaylorJeff Applegate and team have built Houston-based Texas Injection Molding into a regional industrial powerhouse, along the way co-founding the Greater Houston Manufacturers Association in 2013. Recently, Applegate steered TIM into an acquisition by Blackford Capital, where he now leads a rollup strategy to “build a platform of injection molding companies in high-growth regions and high-growth […]
Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Chaos: How Texas and Houston are Impacted
/in General/by Bart TaylorMuch has been reported recently on the state of the Department of Commerce’s NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, or MEP. The program has been around since 1988, enacted to help small- and medium-sized U.S. manufacturers improve competitiveness, in a nutshell. It’s a worthy goal that’s led the efforts of all 50 MEP centers – one per […]
Renaissance Man: Dan Allford and ARC Specialties leads Houston manufacturing out of the oilfield and into the future
/in General/by Bart TaylorTo know Dan Allford is to understand that if one person could personify Houston manufacturing, it’s him. Not that he would agree; too modest from too many years in the patch, for one. But much like Houston, Allford and his company, ARC Specialties, is keeping one foot planted in the oilfield but the other in […]